OPSec Security Issue for iPhones and iPads

This was JUST published today in the UK Guardian, and if you HAVE one of these devices, you need to understand what this is about, and and it's implications, for you as a USER. I suspect that Apple will have a "FIX" or change in firmware, SOON, due to the adverse PR, that this will generate. I will be watching and will update the thread as information becomes available. You have been WARNED, NOW, and it is up to you to decide how this could, and may, be an issue in your OPSec Policies. ..... YMMV....

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - Robert A. Heinlein - "Time Enough For Love"

I have a universal translator. A large bore rifle. It speaks louder than words and will translate you to the afterlife instantly. - Self

My new iPad2 isn't here yet, but will be coming next week. I have no problems with this particular ISSUE, NOW because I know about it, and "I" can deal with the files myself. I published the information so that others will understand, the ISSUE, and can decide for themselves IF, When, and HOW they want to deal with the ISSUE, for themselves. It is the Information, that I wanted to get out to my Monkey Friends, not so much to get them to readjust their Tinfoil Hats.... That decision is on a Individual basis, and you have to have the Information FIRST, to make intelligent choices.

Bruce in alaska (BTPost) An Atheist will never be able to say, "I TOLD YOU SO"!! ....

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - Robert A. Heinlein - "Time Enough For Love"

I have a universal translator. A large bore rifle. It speaks louder than words and will translate you to the afterlife instantly. - Self

Well, my latest present to myself arrived yesterday..... Yea, I bought an iPad2, and it is WAY COOL..... I spent the day getting it charged, setup and loaded the OPSec Firmware Fix, that the OEM released last week, and then tested it, here, where I run the wifi Hotspots and we only have One CellSite, in range. The fix operates as documented, and the imbedded file is now encrypted, and is NOT passed to the connected PC. Oh, Yea, I am writing this on my iPad, sitting in the easy chair, in the front room. Again, WAY COOL..... Next big purchase, is my DMPS 308 with the 24" Chrome lined Stainless Barrel...

Bruce in alaska (BTPost) An Atheist will never be able to say, "I TOLD YOU SO"!! ....